Amanda Nettelbeck
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 454710 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amanda Nettelbeck |
| NOMBRES | Amanda |
| APELLIDO | Nettelbeck |
| FIRMA | NETTELBECK A |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7099-6075 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Unsettled Subjects
Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Australia's settler colonies were not only subject to British immigration but were also the destination of emigration from Asia and 'Asia Minor' on terms of both permanent settlement and fixed indenture. Amanda Nettelbeck argues that these unique patterns shaped nineteenth-century debates about the relationship of the s…
Lyndall Ryan (1943–2024)
Voice, Treaty, Truth and the 'possibilities of history'
The long history of government laws and policies relating to First Nations includes the legal regime of ‘protection’ that placed Indigenous people in the position of wards of the state for much of the twentieth century. In the 1830s, however, when Britain’s Colonial Office conceived the first iteration of ‘protection’ as a policy framework to be applied toI ndigenous people in the Australian colonies, it contained the potential of treaty within i…
Precarious Subjects
Recent discussion in Australia has highlighted how Indigenous citizenship remains troubled by the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This article takes up a pre-history to these discussions, returning to a transitional period (1830s–1850s) in the Australian colonies when governments worked to activate Indigenous people’s newly-clarified legal status as British subjects. How, in this period, did settler colonial culture envisage Indigenous people’s…
The King’s Peace
The King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire." Australian Historical Studies, 53(3), pp. 500–501
Pathways to justice in the APY Lands
In 2017 the Australian Law Reform Commission released the Pathways to Justice report, an inquiry into the incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Commission found that ‘community reinvestment’ strategies were needed to redress the disproportionately high incarceration rates experienced by Indigenous people. Previous strategies involved attempts at pluralising the mainstream criminal justice system, such as by mand…
Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical a…
Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood
Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects. The nineteenth-century policy of 'Aboriginal protection' has usually been seen as a fleeting initiative of imperial humanitarianism, yet it sat within a larger set of legally empowered policies for regulating new or newly-mobile colonised peoples. Protection…
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Flogging as Judicial Violence
‘Savage Wars of Peace’
Precarious Intimacies
Creating the Aboriginal Vagrant
This article considers how shifting programs of Aboriginal protection in nineteenth-century Australia responded to Indigenous mobility as a problem of colonial governance and how they contributed over time to creating an emergent discourse of the Aboriginal “vagrant.” There has been surprisingly little attention to how the legal charge of vagrancy became applied to Indigenous people in colonial Australia before the twentieth century, perhaps beca…
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony
Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies. Extending a reading of `economies' as labour relations into new arenas, this innovative collection of essays examines new understandings of the nexus between violence and intimacy in settler colonial economies of the British Pacific Rim. The sites it…
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Colonial protection and the intimacies of Indigenous governance
Recent scholarship on colonial Protectors of Aborigines has examined the unclear line they walked between advocating for Indigenous rights and advancing the project of colonial state-building. Their task to bring Indigenous people within the fold of Christian civilisation and within the reach of settler law involved more than an attempt to implement colonial policy, however. It also brought Protectors into daily personal contact with Indigenous p…
Salutary Lessons
Over much of the nineteenth century, recurring problems of covert and opportunistic conflict between settlers and Indigenous peoples produced considerable debate across the British settler world about how frontier violence could be legally curbed. At the same time, the difficulty of imposing a rule of law on new frontiers was often seen by colonial states as justification for the imposition of order through force. Examining all the mainland Austr…
Conclusion
Fragile Settlements
Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain’s Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects un…
Proximate Strangers and Familiar Antagonists
A generation of scholarship on the experiences of the frontier—spanning models of violent conflict to various kinds of intimacy—has been highly influential in building a nuanced picture of Australia's colonial race relations. Regionally-focused histories provide a valuable avenue for bringing these models of frontier historiography together within the same frame, because it is at the localised level of social relations that the cross-hatched inte…
We Are Sure of Your Sympathy
The rise and fall of humanist imperial policy across Britain's nineteenth-century empire has received considerable attention in terms of how the principles of Indigneous protection that underpinned the 1837 Report from the House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines fared as a governmental imperative to meet the obligations of humane colonisation. In particular, scholars have examined the gulf between the theory and the practice of protection…
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
The humanitarian moment that shaped British imperial politics between the 1820s and the late 1850s has generated considerable scholarly focus, especially in terms of the various networks through wh
Keep the magistrates straight’
Conspiracy of Silence
On the Side of Law and Order
The history of colonial policing has received considerable scholarly attention in terms of its function to extend and consolidate the legal jurisdiction of British rule over colonised territories and populations. This paper compares some of the complex roles played by Indigenous people who were employed primarily as "trackers" and "scouts" within mounted police forces on Australia's and Canada's settler frontiers. A comparative picture of indigen…
Salutary Lessons
Over much of the nineteenth century, recurring problems of covert and opportunistic conflict between settlers and Indigenous peoples produced considerable debate across the British settler world about how frontier violence could be legally curbed. At the same time, the difficulty of imposing a rule of law on new frontiers was often seen by colonial states as justification for the imposition of order through force. Examining all the mainland Austr…
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony
Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies. Extending a reading of `economies' as labour relations into new arenas, this innovative collection of essays examines new understandings of the nexus between violence and intimacy in settler colonial economies of the British Pacific Rim. The sites it…
Equals of the White Man”
“Crime is a great leveller,” stated Western Australia's The Inquirer in October 1853. “Policy requires that we should convince the native population that in our Courts of Justice they really are what we profess and tell them they are—the equals of the white man, whatever they may be elsewhere.” The Inquirer was responding to a case that had just come before Perth's Quarter Sessions, in which John Jones was tried for the murder of Neader in the co…
Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical a…
Remembering indigenous dispossession in the national museum
Recent decades have seen the escalation of debate across western democracies that were once sites of the British Empire about how to remember the history of colonialism. This essay will consider how these debates have manifested in relation to the history of indigenous dispossession and its remembrance in Australia and Canada, which not only share many parallels in their stories of settlement but also in their recent efforts to come to terms with…
Seeking to spread the truth
Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood
Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects. The nineteenth-century policy of 'Aboriginal protection' has usually been seen as a fleeting initiative of imperial humanitarianism, yet it sat within a larger set of legally empowered policies for regulating new or newly-mobile colonised peoples. Protection…
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
The humanitarian moment that shaped British imperial politics between the 1820s and the late 1850s has generated considerable scholarly focus, especially in terms of the various networks through wh
Indigenous crime and settler law
As the authors of this important new book note in their introduction, the recent wave of scholarship on the legal history of British imperialism has tended to highlight a particular kind of violenc
As fine a body of men”
Primary amongst the legal instruments that would implement British law across Britain’s Empire were colonial mounted police forces, and one of their shared purposes was to ensure Aboriginal people’s compliance to colonial rule. Although the land wars that accompanied the imposition of British rule are an integral part of national historical memory in some parts of the "British west", Australia and Canada have always been framed by national founda…
A Halo of Protection’
Scholarship on Australia's colonial protectorates has examined the ways in which protectors largely failed in their humanitarian mission, as well as the ambivalent roles they played as agents of ‘civilisation’. Yet as well as representing ‘friends and benefactors’ of Aboriginal people, colonial protectors worked to bring them within the legal reach of police, courts and prisons. This article will compare the work of the protectorates during the 1…
The Australian Frontier in the Museum
Historians have suggested that in Australia we now live in a "memorial culture" in which a public consciousness of history is stronger than ever. If this is so, how much is it visible in relation to the history of the colonial frontier? When the new National Museum of Australia opened in 2001 at the height of the History Wars debates, the controversy it attracted around questions of national history and identity indicated the kinds of constraints…
Commemorating Foundation
There has been much debate in Australia about the national historical memory of British settlement and its counterpart of Aboriginal dispossession, but what do we see when this historical memory is examined not on the national but on the regional scale? This paper examines some of the changing forums for commemorating the foundation of South Australia, the Australian colony that has always regarded itself as distinctive in its protection of Abori…
Precarious Subjects
Recent discussion in Australia has highlighted how Indigenous citizenship remains troubled by the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This article takes up a pre-history to these discussions, returning to a transitional period (1830s–1850s) in the Australian colonies when governments worked to activate Indigenous people’s newly-clarified legal status as British subjects. How, in this period, did settler colonial culture envisage Indigenous people’s…
The King’s Peace
The King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire." Australian Historical Studies, 53(3), pp. 500–501
Creating the Aboriginal Vagrant
This article considers how shifting programs of Aboriginal protection in nineteenth-century Australia responded to Indigenous mobility as a problem of colonial governance and how they contributed over time to creating an emergent discourse of the Aboriginal “vagrant.” There has been surprisingly little attention to how the legal charge of vagrancy became applied to Indigenous people in colonial Australia before the twentieth century, perhaps beca…
Proximate Strangers and Familiar Antagonists
A generation of scholarship on the experiences of the frontier—spanning models of violent conflict to various kinds of intimacy—has been highly influential in building a nuanced picture of Australia's colonial race relations. Regionally-focused histories provide a valuable avenue for bringing these models of frontier historiography together within the same frame, because it is at the localised level of social relations that the cross-hatched inte…
Food and governance on the frontiers of colonial Australia and Canada’s North West Territories
In recent decades historians have been turning from a national towards a transnational framework to examine the patterns and processes of colonial governance. This paper aims to contribute to those debates by examining the roles and outcomes of ration distribution as an institutionalised tool of Aboriginal governance on the nineteenth century settler frontiers of colonial Australia and north-west Canada. In so doing it is not our aim to rehearse …
Writing and remembering frontier conflict
Colonial Judiciaries, Aboriginal Protection and South Australia's Policy of Punishing ‘with Exemplary Severity’
The ways in which Europeans experienced the legal system for crimes against Aboriginal people needs more systematic research. Although for the first fifty years of Australian settlement Aboriginal legal status was protractedly ambiguous, the foundational principle of later-established South Australia was that Aboriginal people were British subjects and settler crimes against them would be punished 'with exemplary severity'. This paper puts this f…
Reading the elusive letter of the law
This paper considers the nature of policing policy and practice against Aboriginal people on the frontiers under South Australian jurisdiction over the nineteenth century. The principle ofassimilating Aboriginal people into peaceful settlement as British subjects was a civil ideal founded on contradictory aims that frequently surfaced in interpretations of police duties under the law. In practice, the letter of the law could be fulfi'lled when co…
South Australian settler memoirs
South Australian settler memoirs
Seeking to spread the truth
Reading the elusive letter of the law
This paper considers the nature of policing policy and practice against Aboriginal people on the frontiers under South Australian jurisdiction over the nineteenth century. The principle ofassimilating Aboriginal people into peaceful settlement as British subjects was a civil ideal founded on contradictory aims that frequently surfaced in interpretations of police duties under the law. In practice, the letter of the law could be fulfi'lled when co…
The Transfigured Body and the Ethical Turn in Australian Illness Memoir
Practices of violence/myths of creation
This article explores the cultural logic of the late-evolving colonial frontier of Central Australia through the policing activities of Mounted Constable Willshire and his written representations of his work there. Willshire's importance to this particular frontier history lies in the fact that, as Officer in Charge of the Native Police from 1884–1891, he was actively producing a model for law and order on the pastoral frontier, in the service of…
Commemorating Foundation
There has been much debate in Australia about the national historical memory of British settlement and its counterpart of Aboriginal dispossession, but what do we see when this historical memory is examined not on the national but on the regional scale? This paper examines some of the changing forums for commemorating the foundation of South Australia, the Australian colony that has always regarded itself as distinctive in its protection of Abori…
Colonial Judiciaries, Aboriginal Protection and South Australia's Policy of Punishing ‘with Exemplary Severity’
The ways in which Europeans experienced the legal system for crimes against Aboriginal people needs more systematic research. Although for the first fifty years of Australian settlement Aboriginal legal status was protractedly ambiguous, the foundational principle of later-established South Australia was that Aboriginal people were British subjects and settler crimes against them would be punished 'with exemplary severity'. This paper puts this f…
Writing and remembering frontier conflict
The Australian Frontier in the Museum
Historians have suggested that in Australia we now live in a "memorial culture" in which a public consciousness of history is stronger than ever. If this is so, how much is it visible in relation to the history of the colonial frontier? When the new National Museum of Australia opened in 2001 at the height of the History Wars debates, the controversy it attracted around questions of national history and identity indicated the kinds of constraints…
As fine a body of men”
Primary amongst the legal instruments that would implement British law across Britain’s Empire were colonial mounted police forces, and one of their shared purposes was to ensure Aboriginal people’s compliance to colonial rule. Although the land wars that accompanied the imposition of British rule are an integral part of national historical memory in some parts of the "British west", Australia and Canada have always been framed by national founda…
A Halo of Protection’
Scholarship on Australia's colonial protectorates has examined the ways in which protectors largely failed in their humanitarian mission, as well as the ambivalent roles they played as agents of ‘civilisation’. Yet as well as representing ‘friends and benefactors’ of Aboriginal people, colonial protectors worked to bring them within the legal reach of police, courts and prisons. This article will compare the work of the protectorates during the 1…
Remembering indigenous dispossession in the national museum
Recent decades have seen the escalation of debate across western democracies that were once sites of the British Empire about how to remember the history of colonialism. This essay will consider how these debates have manifested in relation to the history of indigenous dispossession and its remembrance in Australia and Canada, which not only share many parallels in their stories of settlement but also in their recent efforts to come to terms with…
Equals of the White Man”
“Crime is a great leveller,” stated Western Australia's The Inquirer in October 1853. “Policy requires that we should convince the native population that in our Courts of Justice they really are what we profess and tell them they are—the equals of the white man, whatever they may be elsewhere.” The Inquirer was responding to a case that had just come before Perth's Quarter Sessions, in which John Jones was tried for the murder of Neader in the co…
Food and governance on the frontiers of colonial Australia and Canada’s North West Territories
In recent decades historians have been turning from a national towards a transnational framework to examine the patterns and processes of colonial governance. This paper aims to contribute to those debates by examining the roles and outcomes of ration distribution as an institutionalised tool of Aboriginal governance on the nineteenth century settler frontiers of colonial Australia and north-west Canada. In so doing it is not our aim to rehearse …
Indigenous crime and settler law
As the authors of this important new book note in their introduction, the recent wave of scholarship on the legal history of British imperialism has tended to highlight a particular kind of violenc
Conspiracy of Silence
On the Side of Law and Order
The history of colonial policing has received considerable scholarly attention in terms of its function to extend and consolidate the legal jurisdiction of British rule over colonised territories and populations. This paper compares some of the complex roles played by Indigenous people who were employed primarily as "trackers" and "scouts" within mounted police forces on Australia's and Canada's settler frontiers. A comparative picture of indigen…
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
The humanitarian moment that shaped British imperial politics between the 1820s and the late 1850s has generated considerable scholarly focus, especially in terms of the various networks through wh
Keep the magistrates straight’
Conclusion
Fragile Settlements
Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain’s Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects un…
Proximate Strangers and Familiar Antagonists
A generation of scholarship on the experiences of the frontier—spanning models of violent conflict to various kinds of intimacy—has been highly influential in building a nuanced picture of Australia's colonial race relations. Regionally-focused histories provide a valuable avenue for bringing these models of frontier historiography together within the same frame, because it is at the localised level of social relations that the cross-hatched inte…
We Are Sure of Your Sympathy
The rise and fall of humanist imperial policy across Britain's nineteenth-century empire has received considerable attention in terms of how the principles of Indigneous protection that underpinned the 1837 Report from the House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines fared as a governmental imperative to meet the obligations of humane colonisation. In particular, scholars have examined the gulf between the theory and the practice of protection…
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Colonial protection and the intimacies of Indigenous governance
Recent scholarship on colonial Protectors of Aborigines has examined the unclear line they walked between advocating for Indigenous rights and advancing the project of colonial state-building. Their task to bring Indigenous people within the fold of Christian civilisation and within the reach of settler law involved more than an attempt to implement colonial policy, however. It also brought Protectors into daily personal contact with Indigenous p…
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